Dementia Care
Young Engineers Learning Human Side in Partnership with Phoebe Ministries
Published on November 3, 2014
Dementia diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s, are reaching epidemic proportions as our population ages. Dr. Marietta Scanlon, a professor of engineering at Penn State Lehigh Valley, experienced it first-hand when her own mother began to show signs of the disease and recently succumbed to it. Dr. Scanlon has long made it a goal to stress the human side of engineering to her students and has seized an opportunity to do that, and honor her mother, through a partnership with Phoebe Ministries. LEARN MORE…
